Chords for Too $hort - The Ghetto (Official Video)

[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] for the ghetto.
Talking [Bm] about the ghetto, _ _ [E] _ _
_ [D] funky, funky ghetto.
_ _ [E] _ _
Trying [Bm] to survive, _ [E] trying to stay [Bm] alive.
Look ghetto, _ _ [E] look _ [Bm] _ ghetto, talking [E] about the ghetto.
_ [Bm] Look ghetto, _ _ [E] _ _
_ [Bm] look ghetto, faking [E] faking ghetto.
[Bm] Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned [E] out,
dope fiends bowing a [Bm] pipe in their mouth.
Old school buddies not doing it right,
[E] every day it's the same, it's the [Bm] same every night.
I wouldn't shoot you bro, but I'd shoot that fool
[E] if he played me close and tried to [Bm] test my cool.
Every day I wonder just how I'd die,
[E] only thing I know is how [Bm] to survive.
There's only one rule in the real world,
[E] and that's to take care of you, only [D] you and your.
[Bm] Keep dealing with the hard times day after day,
[E] might deal me some dope, but then [Bm] crime don't pay.
Black man trying to break in my house again,
[E] thought he got off the dope, doing [D] time in the pen.
[Bm] Even though my brothers do me just like [E] that,
I get a lot of love so I'm [Bm] giving it back to you.
Some ghetto, talking [E] about the ghetto.
_ [Bm] Some ghetto, [E] talking about the ghetto.
_ [Bm] Some ghetto, trying [E] to live my [Bm] life.
Some ghetto, _ [E] better tell them what it's too [Bm] short.
So just peep the game and don't call it [E] crap,
cause to me, life is one hard [Bm] rap.
Even though my sister smoked crack [E] cocaine,
she was nine months pregnant, ain't [Bm] nothing changed.
Six hundred million on the football [E] team,
and her baby died just like a [Bm] dope fiend.
The story I tell is so [E] incomplete,
five kids in the house, no [Bm] food to eat.
Don't look at me and don't ask me [E] why.
Mama's next door, getting [Bm] hot.
Even though she's got five miles to [E] feed,
she'd rather spend her money on a HIT.
[Bm] I always tell the truth about things like [E] this.
I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list.
[Bm] Instead of adding to the task force, send some [E] help.
Waiting on him, I better [Bm] help myself.
Housing Authority and the [E] OPD,
all these guns just to handle [Bm] me and my family.
The ghetto, people [E] are dying.
[Bm] The ghetto, [E] children are crying.
_ [Bm] _ The ghetto, don't [E] have enough to eat.
[Bm] The ghetto, don't even have [E] shoes on [D] their feet. [Bm] The ghetto.
_ _ [E] _ _
[Bm] Even though they put us down and call us animals,
[E] we make real big [Bm] banks and buy brand new clothes,
drive fancy cars, make love to [E] stars.
Never really seeing just who we [Bm] are,
we use alias names like Too Short.
[E] Sell you stuff you might [Bm] kill for.
Young kids grow up and that's all they [E] know.
Didn't teach in the [Bm] school, now he's slaying dope.
Only thing he knows is how to [E] survive,
but will he kill another brother [Bm] before he dies in the ghetto?
You keep one eye [E] open all day long,
just [Bm] hoping and hoping you can pay your bills
and not drink too [E] much.
Then the problems of life you'll be [Bm] throwing up, like me.
But you don't [E] see, 10 years from now, where will you [Bm] be?
The ghetto, talking [E] out.
Trying to get out of the [Bm] ghetto.
The ghetto, talking [E] out.
But I got no place to [D] go.
The [Bm] ghetto, talking out.
[E] Trying to survive in the heart of the [Bm] ghetto.
The ghetto, talking out.
Cause that's [E] the only place that [Bm] I know.
So much game in a Too Short [E] rap.
Can't be white and whites [Bm] can't be black.
Why you wanna act like someone [E] else?
All you gotta do is just [Bm] be yourself.
We're all the same color underneath.
[E] Short dog is in the house, you better [D] listen to [Bm] me.
Never be ashamed of what you [E] are.
Proud to be black, stand [Bm] tall at heart.
Even though some people give you no [E] respect, be intelligent.
When you put them in [Bm] check, cause when you ignorant,
you get treated that [E] way.
And when they throw you in jail, you got [Bm] nothing to say.
So if you don't listen, it's not my [E] fault.
I'll be getting paid, and you'll be [Bm] paying the cost.
Sitting in the jailhouse running yo [E] mouth
while me and my people try to [Bm] get out.
The ghetto, talking [E] about the ghetto.
Talking about [Bm] the ghetto.
The ghetto, talking [E] _
about the ghetto.
[Bm] The ghetto, [E] talking about the ghetto.
Trying to survive.
[Bm] The ghetto, talking [E] about the ghetto.
Try to stay alive.
[Bm] The ghetto, talking [E] about the ghetto.
_ [Bm] The ghetto, talking [E] about the ghetto.
Got no [Bm] place else to go.
The ghetto, talking [E] about the ghetto.
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _